The stuff he said about Bernie Madoff is true. The only reason he went down is he was just a high-end (I use that term loosely) Ponzi-schemer. He didn’t spread his money around the right way and he ripped off the “wrong people”: rich people.

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You know, I don’t mind suburban white kids and chicks thinking Drake is the best rapper ever, but there are black hip-hop fans and hood dudes old enough to remember the late 80s and early 90s who enthusiastically cosign this guy’s skills. I don’t get it.

Word homie. No soul anymore. What these new cats fail to relize is the people who came before were trying to convey something. Music to them was a means to an out of a f’d up situation. They pored they’re soul into the music, money was secondary. Their were no publicists, no styists, nobody telling them how to act and what to say, they did and said what they felt. These new kids don’t even know their history. How many do you think know who Rick Rubin is or know a soul singer other than Marvin Gaye. I bet not many. It doesn’t matter what genre of music either it’s all the same. All about the almighty dollar. Great post G. Keep up the good work.

Apart from the Drake syndrome, look at what’s going on in RnB/Soul with all this faux-euro-electric crap going on. And I do listen to future-oriented music, but this ‘new soul’ is just a pathetic knock-off.